Hacker News: nickburns

New comment by nickburns in "Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship"

nickburns — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:51:13 +0000

SpaceX's nearest competitor is not China. It's more likely the US.

New comment by nickburns in "Starship Flight 15 on 11/13 plans to catch both booster and ship"

nickburns — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:08:00 +0000

Who's him? Such a tired (and illogical) refrain. Show some respect to the actual rocket scientists and engineers of SpaceX.

New comment by nickburns in "Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell"

nickburns — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 11:52:19 +0000

LMFAO

pfSense at 20

nickburns — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:51:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-at-20

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289048

Points: 2

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New comment by nickburns in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

nickburns — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:46:34 +0000

I only meant the artful term is 'goodwill' and not 'good will'.

New comment by nickburns in "“It works better in the app”"

nickburns — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:41:11 +0000

You mean some kind of perceived personal convenience through the uneven-handed profit of others and at the expense of everyone else.

Trying to check why your card was declined at a checkout—while still standing at said checkout? Troubleshooting "PIN issues" (meaning your bad)? Is everyone still standing behind you at this point? LOL. Exactly.

New comment by nickburns in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

nickburns — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:18:36 +0000

Lawyers (and bean counters) call it 'goodwill'. One word.

New comment by nickburns in "Anthropic's Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine"

nickburns — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:57:37 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

New comment by nickburns in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

nickburns — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:46:29 +0000

Reddit is a cesspool of mediocrity and groupthink. Hope that helps.

New comment by nickburns in "Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia"

nickburns — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:07:28 +0000

Larry Sanger once called me "butthurt" just before welcoming me to his e-mail "killfile". I forget the context completely, but to this day it stands as one of my proudest young Internet troll moments.

New comment by nickburns in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

nickburns — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:27:22 +0000

You're right, it's not ambiguous. It's literally incorrect.

New comment by nickburns in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

nickburns — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:26:45 +0000

Yeah, no.

New comment by nickburns in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

nickburns — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:53:50 +0000

> But what made this summer's episode unusual was its persistence.

But, but—it's not summer in the Nothern Hemisphere yet.

New comment by nickburns in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

nickburns — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:47:32 +0000

If it ain't broke!

New comment by nickburns in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

nickburns — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:42:58 +0000

More strange. Stranger. This is strange. Stranger? Who are you?

New comment by nickburns in "The desperation of NYTimes"

nickburns — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:50:06 +0000

So subscribing to NYT somehow changed your stance on online privacy? Color me confused...

New comment by nickburns in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

nickburns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:19:25 +0000

Ah, great! I 'took a shot in the dark' there. Glad it 'panned out'. ;)

New comment by nickburns in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

nickburns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:15:02 +0000

'Bread *and butter'. The English expression requires the second part—but otherwise fits perfectly in your well-stated point, with which I wholeheartedly agree.

Source: AAL.

New comment by nickburns in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

nickburns — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:15:31 +0000

TFA discusses at-length how APNs and FCM are necessary intermediaries regardless, effectively creating a technical duopoly on 'push'. We all agree it would've been preferable for things not to have gotten this way, but here we are.

New comment by nickburns in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

nickburns — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:06:32 +0000

> You think there might be some sort of interaction between both facets there?

With the exception of one trying to extract currency from the other, in exchange for something of dubious value—no.